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Easy Sports Trivia Questions
The easy questions from our sports set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The easy sports questions are about basic rules and counts: players on a soccer field, bases on a diamond, rings on the Olympic flag, holes in a round of golf. Almost anyone who has watched sport casually will get most of these.
14 easy sports trivia questions with answers
How many players from one team are on the field in a soccer match?
Answer: 11 Ten outfield players plus the goalkeeper.
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
Answer: Five The five interlocking rings stand for the five inhabited continents.
Wimbledon is a championship in which sport?
Answer: Tennis It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, first held in 1877.
How high is a regulation basketball hoop above the floor?
Answer: 10 feet The height has been ten feet since James Naismith nailed up the first peach baskets.
In American football, how many points is a touchdown worth before the extra point?
Answer: Six The conversion kick afterwards adds one more, or two if the team runs it in.
How many bases are there on a baseball diamond?
Answer: Four First, second, third and home plate.
Birdie, eagle and albatross are scoring terms in which sport?
Answer: Golf Each describes finishing a hole one, two or three strokes under par.
A full round of golf is normally how many holes?
Answer: 18 St Andrews settled on eighteen in 1764 and the rest of the world followed.
The Summer Olympic Games are normally held once every how many years?
Answer: Four The four-year gap is called an Olympiad.
Which country hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896?
Answer: Greece Athens was chosen as a nod to the ancient games at Olympia.
The Tour de France is a competition in which sport?
Answer: Cycling It began in 1903 as a stunt to sell newspapers.
How many players does an ice hockey team have on the ice, including the goaltender?
Answer: Six Three forwards, two defencemen and a goalie.
What colour card sends a soccer player off the field?
Answer: Red Cards were introduced at the 1970 World Cup to beat the language barrier.
A perfect game in ten-pin bowling scores how many points?
Answer: 300 It takes twelve strikes in a row across ten frames.
Answer key
- 11
- Five
- Tennis
- 10 feet
- Six
- Four
- Golf
- 18
- Four
- Greece
- Cycling
- Six
- Red
- 300
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